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occam reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General The Beautiful Mess of 5e with
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Yeah, my players have a similar breakdown and it's fine. -
occam reacted to Scott Christian's post in the thread D&D General The Beautiful Mess of 5e with Like.
Not disagreeing to just disagree, but D&D actually does a great job of balancing all three. I have literally played a yearlong campaign...
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Part of this can be mitigated by DM presentation. It is true its easy to focus on the "kill shots" and not recognize everything else...
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RE: Upscaling blast spells, honestly I don’t think this needs fixing. I’m ok with casting spells that are natively higher level being...
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This is one of those "I wonder how players would feel about it if I did it to them" sort of spells. I've always adjudicated that a pile...
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The issue with Twilight Clerics and other WOTC-published broken stuff (Silvery Barbs) is that they're all considered default in D&D...
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Interestingly, I think this might explain what happened with Conjure Elementals, or whichever one it was that everyone was freaking out...
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occam reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General The Beautiful Mess of 5e with
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A true throwback edition! -
occam reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General Why Enworld should liberate D&D from Hasbro with Like.
We don't have good data for sales any more and even if we did it doesn't account for the growth of DndBeyond and people (like me) who no...
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occam reacted to Older Beholder's post in the thread D&D General Why Enworld should liberate D&D from Hasbro with Like.
Exactly, that's all I was saying. Speculation is not proof. Personally, I don't think TTRPG's and Video games are an exact match for...
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occam reacted to Azzy's post in the thread D&D General Why Enworld should liberate D&D from Hasbro with Like.
That's kinda what 3PP are there for (amongst many other things). 3PP can do things that WotC doesn't want to touch for one reason or...
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occam reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General Why Enworld should liberate D&D from Hasbro with Like.
Note: media entertainment for younger generations is always made by older generations. D&D was originally designed by Silent Generation...
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His main argument is that after seeing the game in action blast spells, particularly AOEs, are underpowered in general and that fireball...
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occam reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General Why Enworld should liberate D&D from Hasbro with Like.
I have to point out at least Micah's issues with current D&D have nothing much to do with diversity in it. I understand why people can...
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occam reacted to payn's post in the thread D&D General Combat Against Player Engagement: A Systemic Challenge with Like.
A pretty good essay, this was the part where I think the discussion lies for us. This is how its done. There is still a pitfall that...